Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years - Tapa blanda

Coburn, Karen Levin; Treeger, Madge Lawrence

 
9780060521264: Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
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ISBN 10: 0060521260 ISBN 13: 9780060521264
Editorial: Quill, 2003

Sinopsis

This bestselling guide, read by hundreds of thousands of parents over the past decade, is now better than ever, newly revised and completely updated. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years.

  • When should parents encourage independence?

  • When should they intervene?

  • What issues of identity and intimacy await students?

  • What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for students?and for parents?

  • What is different about today?s college environment?

  • What new concerns about safety, health and wellness, and stress will affect incoming classes?

These important issues and more are addressed with wise advice and time-tested counsel in Letting Go -- a realistic and reassuring source for meeting the challenges ahead, from the senior year in high school through college graduation.

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Reseña del editor

Thoroughly revised and updated, a popular guide for parents to dealing with their feelings during their children's time away at college advises them about when to encourage their children's independence and when to come to the rescue, covering such issues as academic pressures, and homesickness to alcohol abuse and credit card debt. Original

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Editorial
Quill
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0060521260
ISBN 13 
9780060521264
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
4
Número de páginas
368
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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